"learning the Piano and Sitar, showing signs of the genes he has inherited. Shubhendra Rao Shubhendra Rao is a composer and sitar player who is ranked amongst the top soloists of India. The press describes him as ""a musical bridge to many cultures"" and ""a thinking musician, constantly endeavoring to carry his instrument beyond conventional boundaries"". His music is ""an experience that is not aimed at titillating the senses, but to seize the soul"". A protege of Ravi Shankar, he is acknowledged by critics and connoisseurs alike as a worthy successor to his teacher's tradition. He is a classical musician,"
"Khan, the performer-pedagogue from Maihar best known as sitarist Ravi Shankar's guru. However, as is the case with most young, evolving instruments, much work remains to be done in the area of sarod luthiery in order to achieve reliable customization, and precise replication of successful instruments. This reflects the general state of Indian instrument-making in the present day. The design of the instrument depends on the school (gharana) of playing. There are three distinguishable types: The conventional sarod is a 17 to 25-stringed lute-like instrument — four to five main strings used for playing the melody, one or two drone"
"Shankar's female companion, on tambura. The second piece is ""Raga Ananda Bhairava"", performed by Shankar with his regular accompanist and instrument-maker, Nodu Mullick, on tambura, and Rakha again on tabla. Side two in the original LP format consists of Menuhin and his sister Hephzibah performing Bartók's Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano. All selections by Ravi Shankar except where noted. Side one Side two West Meets East, Volume 2 West Meets East, Volume 2 is an album by American violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, released in 1968. It is the second album in a trilogy"
"century, having composed up to 600 pieces of music and been responsible for modernising two of its most important string instruments – the sitar and the sarod. Author Peter Lavazzoli credits Baba's various contributions as having ""shaped ... much of what the West knows as Indian classical music"" via Shankar and Khan's subsequent work. Of the two musicians, Khan, as a master sarodya, was the first to achieve international recognition, with a visit to New York that culminated in his 1955 album """".<ref name=""Hunt/AAK obit"">Ken Hunt, ""Ustad Ali Akbar Khan: Sarod maestro who played with Ravi Shankar and appeared at"
"combination. Another Baba legacy was the ""jawab-sawal"" (call-and-response) interplay between solo instruments and the twin hand-drum tabla – a dialogue that Shankar, especially, popularised with Western rock audiences, through his and tabla player Alla Rakha's performances at Monterrey and Woodstock in the late 1960s. Compared to the more traditional musical path adopted by Khan, Shankar experimented with genres outside Indian classical music and increasingly associated with Western artists, including George Harrison and Philip Glass.<ref name=""Massey/Shankar obit"">Reginald Massey, ""Ravi Shankar obituary"", ""The Guardian"", 12 December 2012 (retrieved 1 November 2013).</ref> Born in East Bengal (now part of Bangladesh), Khan joined Shankar"
"when Ravi Shankar retained him as his regular touring accompanist from around 1962 onwards. What he lacked in beauty of tone, Alla Rakha more than made up for it, with the most magically intuitive and natural sense of rhythm – an ability to play outside the beat while always remaining entirely cognizant of it. Rakha popularized the art of tabla, playing across the globe, elevating the status and respect of his instrument. Abbaji (as he was affectionately known by his disciples) also bridged the gap between Carnatic music and Hindustani music by playing with both renowned Carnatic musicians and other"
"Alla Rakha Ustad Allarakha Qureshi (29 April 1919 – 3 February 2000), popularly known as Alla Rakha, was an Indian tabla player specialized in Hindustani Classical music. He was a frequent accompanist of sitar player Ravi Shankar. Allah Rakha was born in Ghagwal, Jammu and Kashmir, British India. His mother tongue was Dogri. He became fascinated with the sound and rhythm of the tabla at the age of 12, while staying with his uncle in Gurdaspur. Finding little chances for grooming and appreciation, the determined young lad ran away from home, became a disciple of tabla began studying it with"
"Concerto for Sitar & Orchestra Concerto for Sitar & Orchestra is a studio album by Indian musician and composer Ravi Shankar with the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) conducted by André Previn. It was premiered at London's Royal Festival Hall on 28 January 1971, and subsequently released in Britain and America. Shankar began composing the work, his first concerto, after receiving a commission from the LSO in mid November 1970. The idea of creating an Indian classical work for a full Western orchestra, accompanied by his sitar, appealed to Shankar following his forays into chamber music with violinist Yehudi Menuhin –"
"Musical instruments of Rajasthan The Musical instruments of Rajasthan include: Raavan Hatha, or 'Raavan's Hand' is a string instrument modelled from a legend telling the story of how the creature called Raavan came upon his death by Lord Rama in Sri Lanka. Fifteen metallic pegs run along the stem of the instrument representing Raavan's fifteen fingers. The two wooden pegs behind the stem represent his thumbs. The coconut base represents the shoulder and the strings represent the nerves. The seventeen-string kamaicha, or khamaycha, is a string instrument constructed out of a piece of mango wood, featuring a round resonator covered"
"Gopal Krishan Pandit Gopal Krishan was an exponent of vichitra veena, an ancient Indian musical instrument. He is arguably the best Vichitra Veena player of all times. He was given initial music lessons by his father, Pandit Nand Kishore, who was himself a noted surbahar player and vocalist. After his father's death, he continued his training in music under the guidance of Pt Khubchand Bramchari of the Gwalior school of music. Later, when he was already an accomplished artist at All India Radio, he came in contact with famous sitar maestro, Pandit Ravi Shankar, and learnt the finer aspects of"
"string instrument). From a very early age, Rabin Ghosh was influenced by the musical atmosphere, which drove him into playing Esraj, Flute, and Tabla (an Indian percussion instrument). He finally focused on Violin, under the guidance of Mr. Mani Majumder, one of the renowned violinists of the contemporary time of Western Classical Music. After continuous training on Western Classical Music he shifted to North Indian Classical Music under the guidance of 'Sangeetacharya' Haripada Chattopadhay, exponent violinist of 'Dagar Gharana' (Dagar school of thoughts) of North Indian Classical Music. Rabin Ghosh continued his training more than a decade under the tutelage"
"Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India was an Indian classical music revue led by sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar intended for Western concert audiences and performed in 1974. Its presentation was the first project undertaken by the Material World Charitable Foundation, set up the previous year by ex-Beatle George Harrison. Long a champion of Indian music, Harrison also produced an eponymous studio album by the Music Festival orchestra, which was released in 1976 on his Dark Horse record label. Both the CD format of the Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India album and a"
"Jugalbandi A jugalbandi or jugalbandhi (Kannada: ಜುಗಲ್‌ಬಂದಿ, Devanagari: जुगलबंदी, Urdu: جگلبندئ‍, ) is a performance in Indian classical music, especially in Hindustani classical music, that features a duet of two solo musicians. The word jugalbandi means, literally, ""entwined twins."" The duet can be either vocal or instrumental. Often, the musicians will play different instruments, as for example the famous duets between sitarist Ravi Shankar and sarod player Ali Akbar Khan, who played the format since the 1940s. More rarely, the musicians (either vocalists or instrumentalists) may be from different traditions (i.e. Carnatic and Hindustani). What defines ""jugalbandi"" is that the"
"Saraswati veena The Sarasvati vīṇa (also spelled Saraswati vina) (Sanskrit: सरस्वती वीणा (vīṇā), , Malayalam: വീണ, ,) is an Indian plucked string instrument. It is named after the Hindu goddess Saraswati, who is usually depicted holding or playing the instrument. Also known as ""raghunatha veena"" is used mostly in Carnatic Indian classical music. There are several variations of the veena, which in its South Indian form is a member of the lute family. One who plays the veena is referred to as a ""vainika"". It is one of other major types of veena popular today. The others include chitra veena,"
"Kamala Chakravarty Kamala Chakravarty (born Saraswati Kamala Shastri, 1928) is an Indian classical musician and former dancer, known for her association with sitar maestro Ravi Shankar. From 1967 until the late 1970s, she accompanied Shankar, in the role of tambura player and singer, in a number of acclaimed performances, including the Monterey International Pop Festival (1967), his Human Rights Day duet with violinist Yehudi Menuhin (1967), the Concert for Bangladesh (1971) and the Music Festival from India (1974). She also lived with Shankar as his wife from 1967 to 1981, during which he was still married to musician and teacher"
"swarmandal. A type of zither, the swarmandal provided the glissando flourishes that introduce the tabla during the alap and signal the return to 16-beat tintal before the final verse. Musicologist Michael Hannan comments that, relative to standard Indian practice, the use of three tamburas produces ""a denser-than-usual, pulsating jivari"" (or ""buzzing sound""), highlighting the naturally rich harmonics of the instrument. The session was also attended by Lennon, artist Peter Blake, and John Barham, an English classical pianist and student of Shankar who shared Harrison's desire to promote Indian music to Western audiences. In Barham's recollection, Harrison ""had the entire structure"
"Tar shehnai The tar shehnai, also spelled tarshenai or sometimes tar shehanai, is an esraj (an Indian bowed instrument) whose sound is amplified by a metal horn attached to its sound board. The term is also used to refer to the horn itself. The horn of a phonograph has sometimes been used. The instrument sounds similar to a violin or to a shehnai (an Indian reed instrument like an oboe or shawm). It is sometimes used instead of a shehnai when no shehnai player is available. The word ""tar"" means ""stringed"". A tar shehnai played by Daksinaranjan Tagore is used"
"released by the singer Girija Devi at the ITC Sangeet Research Academy in September 2017. Tarun Bhattacharya Pandit Tarun Bhattacharya (born 23 December 1957) is an Indian classical musician who plays the santoor, a type of hammered dulcimer. He has learnt from Ravi Shankar. Bhattacharya was born on 23 December 1957 in Howrah (the twin city of Calcutta), India. A commerce graduate from one of the most reputed colleges of Calcutta, after a few brief years of professional life Bhattacharya started learning music from his father, Rabi Bhattacharya, honed his skills under Dulal Roy and finally began learning under Ravi"
"mentioned in Abele and Niederheitmann's ""The Violin: Its History & Construction"". Kingri (string instrument) Kingri is a chordophone Indian bowed string instrument (string spike fiddle), similar to Rabab and Ravanastron. It has a resonator box of unglazed pottery, through which a stick is passed to function as the neck. The Kingri is mentioned in the Sanskrit epic ""Mahabharata"", in many Ancient Indian Brahmin's tales. and in Punjab's folk music. The kingri is also used in traditional death ceremonies, marriages and religious festivals in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. The kingri first appeared as a single string instrument and has since evolved"
"as kshetram vadyam. It is also played for marriages and in military music. Kombu (instrument) Sringa The sringa, also known as tutari, ranasringa, blowhorn, sig, singa, kurudutu or kombu, is an ancient Indian musical instrument. It is a type of horn wind instrument. There are two shape types of bugles, one made in ""S"" shape, and the other in ""C"" shape. Material was originally made of animal horn, and of metal. The tutari in Maharashtra, has survived not just because of its connections to royal traditions, but as a current political symbol. The instrument is also executed in South India,"
"a performance. In November 2014, Daler Mehndi was invited to Nigeria for a performance to celebrate Diwali. This was the second time the musician has performed in the country. Daler Mehndi is credited for creating a genre called ""Rabbabi"", which is a combination of Thumri, Sufi and rock and creating an instrument called ""Swar Mandir"" which is an instrument that combines influences from the Rabab, Swarmandal and Tanpura. The instrument was crafted by Sanjay Rikhi Ram from Delhi and was launched on 10 February 2012 by the Indian classical music maestro, Bharat Ratna awardee Pandit Ravi Shankar. Daler Mehndi launched"
"monophonous and also has a typical two and half octave sound reproduction. Sliding the fingers on and off the holes allows for production of variety of Gamakas, important in the performance of raga-based music. The flute (Venu) finds great mention in Indian mythology and folklore having been listed as among the 3 original instruments meant for music along with the human sound and Veena (vaani-veena-venu). However it is strange that there is no name mentioned for the typical flute that the Lord plays. The ""venu"" is associated with the Hindu god Krishna, who is often depicted playing it. This kind"
"time. Satyapal Maharaj ◆ Bharghava Halambi Kanjira The kanjira, khanjira, khanjiri or ganjira, a South Indian frame drum, is an instrument of the tambourine family. As a folk and bhajan instrument, it has been used in India for many centuries. It was modified to a frame drum with a single pair of jingles by Manpoondia Pillai in the 1880s, who is credited with bringing the instrument to the classical stage. It is used primarily in concerts of Carnatic music (South Indian classical music) as a supporting instrument for the ""mridangam"". Similar to the Western tambourine, it consists of a circular"
"start with 'I Am Missing You,' as sung by Lakshmi Shankar. This rare English-language song shows off Shankar's gift for melody … [The ballet's] music is appropriately varied in tone and instrumentation over three movements entitled 'Dream,' 'Nightmare' and 'Dawn.' Western instruments such as saxophone, bass and guitar augment the traditional Indian sound to create unusual, evocative mood pieces with a definite, hypnotic groove.""<ref name=""Marchese/Second Disc"">Joe Marchese, ""Review: Ravi Shankar and George Harrison, 'Collaborations'"", The Second Disc, 8 November 2010 (retrieved 18 August 2014).</ref> Music journalist Graham Reid describes Shankar's two Dark Horse albums as ""absolute delights of immacuately produced,"
"chart throughout his career. Ravi Shankar's appearance at the Monterey International Pop Festival marked a highpoint in the popularity of Indian classical music in the West, during a period when rock groups such as the Beatles, the Byrds and the Rolling Stones had increasingly adopted aspects of the genre in their work. Adding to Shankar's own standing among Western youth, he had achieved fame for his role as sitar teacher to George Harrison, the Beatles' lead guitarist. Having moved to California in February 1967 due to the demand for his concerts in the United States, the festival was Shankar's first"
"Mohan veena A mohan veena is either of two distinct plucked string instruments used in Indian classical music, especially Hindustani classical music which is associated with the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent. A modified sarod, created by sarod player Radhika Mohan Maitra in the 1940s, was called the mohan veena. The instrument was so named by musicologist Thakur Jaidev Singh, then the chief producer at All India Radio. Later Vishwa Mohan Bhatt modified a Hawaiian guitar to create an instrument also called the mohan veena, with Bhatt naming the instrument after himself. The latter instrument has become more closely"
"Sursingar The sursingar (IAST: ), sursringar or surshringar (Sringara: Pleasure in Sanskrit), is a musical instrument from India having many similarities with the sarod. It is larger than the sarod and produces a deeper sound. It precedes the sarod chronologically. In Dhrupad style it was used as a solo instrument in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is regarded as a further development of the Dhrupad-Rabab that has more or less disappeared today Its neck has a metal fingerboard and the steel and bronze strings are played with a metal pick, while the bridge is made of a flat horn."
"his trilogy of albums with classical violinist Yehudi Menuhin.<ref name=""Massey/Shankar obit"">Reginald Massey, ""Ravi Shankar obituary"", ""The Guardian"", 12 December 2012 (retrieved 27 December 2013).</ref> Shankar describes the session for ""West Eats Meat"" as the first time he ever played sitar with a jazz bassist – in this instance, Patrick O'Hearn. Produced by Baumann at The Enterprise in Burbank, California, the session included contributions from Lakshmi, Khan and former Shankar student Harihar Rao (on percussion), and tabla player Kumar Bose. Like Chaudhuri, Bose had become one of Shankar's preferred accompanists on tabla, following the end of the sitarist's 33-year partnership with"
"""Pather Panchali"","" in which Ravi Shankar and the Western musicians play together. The track is remarkable for little else; it is simply Western film music with the sitar playing the melody. However, this session, and that of film composer Shankar Jaikishan (1968), were connected the film industry, for Indian film music surely contributes the most considerable corpus of music that combines Indian and Western musics. However, both Ravi Shankar and Ananda Shankar are important figures with regard to Jazz because it was primarily through their music that John Coltrane and others became aware of Indian music. Tony Scott recorded a"
"fingers of his left hand. Amjad Ali is, however, pictured circa 1960 playing with all three fingers. Sarod The sarod (or sarode) (सरोद, সরোদ) is a stringed instrument, used mainly in Hindustani music on the Indian subcontinent. Along with the sitar, it is among the most popular and prominent instruments. The sarod is known for a deep, weighty, introspective sound, in contrast with the sweet, overtone-rich texture of the sitar, with sympathetic strings that give it a resonant, reverberant quality. It is a fretless instrument able to produce the continuous slides between notes known as meend (glissandi), which are important"
"throughout the Indian subcontinent, the sitar became popularly known in the wider world through the works of Ravi Shankar, beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In the 1960s, a short-lived trend arose for the use of the sitar in Western popular music, with the instrument appearing on tracks by bands such as The Beatles, The Doors, The Rolling Stones and others. ""Sitar"" originates from the Persian ""seh"" + ""tar"", literally meaning ""three strings."" There are multiple theories surrounding the origin of the sitar. Delhi Sultanate Origin According to various sources the sitar was invented by Amir Khusrow, a"
"California. She also modeled and acted in stage productions. She began performing professionally at age 14. Shankar plays the violin, cello and piano. She is the only female in the world to play the double violin. This ten-string, stereophonic instrument covers the entire orchestral range, including double bass, cello, viola and violin. In 2004, she performed on the score of composer John Debney for the movie ""The Passion of the Christ"". Shankar has been associated with the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. In 2007, Shankar was chosen as one of six film composers chosen to attend the Sundance Institute"
"that highlights the album's East-meets-West theme. Shankar sports a baritone saxophone, Harrison sits behind a small drum, while most of the other musicians have swapped their regular instrument for the opposite culture's near equivalent: Keltner plays another hand drum, whereas Rakha holds a pair of drumsticks; bass player Voormann has a tamboura, Sharma a Western-style violin, and Chaurasia a bass flute. ""Shankar Family & Friends"" peaked at number 176 on the ""Billboard"" 200 in America but failed to place on Britain's album chart, then just a top 50. According to pop-culture author Robert Rodriguez, Shankar was in two minds about"